Mounting an HxC2001 in a SF314/354 ext drive

[blakespot]

I have an early, proper 520ST with no internal drive and I want to mount an HxC2001 in one of the external floppy drives. Has anyone done this? Is the proper power there, etc?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

bp

[moonlight_mile]

I never really found a nice clean looking way to mount the hxc internally. I am not good with building cases and the such so I gave up and just got a cased model. I have the power and ribbon cable sticking out of my drive bay.

[blakespot]

My original 520ST has no internal drive connector. Is it possible to out this in an SF314 / SF354? Or is this not possible?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

bp

[+wood_jl]

Of course it is possible.

 

 

 

 

If you search this ST sub-forum for "HxC" then some threads will pop up.

 

Here are a couple:

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/159593-hxc-floppy-emulator-any-st-owners-here-getting-one/

 

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/165297-where-to-source-st-floppy-cables-power-extension/

 

 

 

Note - however - that I have been using older drives. I **believe** (I do not know) that in some of the very last Atari drives, they changed something - like dropping one of the voltages, and moving to non-standard connector(s). I do not have one of these drives. The ones I have use the standard 34-pin PC-style data cable, and standard PC-style voltages. I'm just mentioning this because I'm pretty sure I saw it somewhere that some of the last drives were lower-voltage (or something) and had weird connectors.

 

Someone who has more experience with the later ST floppy drives, please chime in.

 

 

 

Addendum: This thread......

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/211924-old-atari-sf354-hxc-floppy-emulator/

 

 

....has pictures of the non-standard connector drive. I thought it was the newer drives, as I use the older ones and they're standard 34-pin.

 

 

Good luck!